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Here come the players: France, the designated home side, go first, followed by Germany. On ITV, Clive Tyldesley starts with a cracking statistic: 14 of the 22 players starting this game have won the World Cup. This really is elite group-stage association football.
“I hope this game is like the highly enjoyable craziness of that Portugal and Netherlands game years ago,” says Ruth Purdue. “I doubt it will be and probably will be cagey.”
That game certainly wasn’t cagey, though some of the players could have ended up behind bars. Honk!
